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Read Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, The Bad Samaritans, Lies my Teacher Told Me, and A People's History of the US. Anyone have recommendations in line with these? I need stuff to read at night during a two week summer drill to fuel my debating with the other Marines. Alternatively I'm about to get a new job back in a laboratory environment, which I haven't been involved with in over a decade since college, and could use some good "history of the sciences" recommendations.
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Uroboros posted:Read Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge, The Bad Samaritans, Lies my Teacher Told Me, and A People's History of the US. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
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Jun 11, 2016 02:25
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Might as well add Before the Storm, to complete the Perlstein lineup.
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Mantis42 posted:Might as well add Before the Storm, to complete the Perlstein lineup. I wanted to but iTunes didn't have an audiobook.
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Uroboros posted:I wanted to but iTunes didn't have an audiobook. ah hell, i can't learn about a subject because there isn't a person on itunes reading the book out loud to me. i also need someone to change my soiled diaper
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Jun 13, 2016 02:16
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Digging into 1493 after finishing 1491 a few months ago and it's also just as great.
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A human heart posted:ah hell, i can't learn about a subject because there isn't a person on itunes reading the book out loud to me. i also need someone to change my soiled diaper Slow your roll chief. I too would ideally love it if everyone took a few hours a day to read books but poo poo isn't always ideal. Personally I'd rather someone indulge their curiosity about history via an audio book than be put off it entirely by stodgy purists. Not all of us can, or want to be, dorky professional academics.
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Is there a very accesable book for history about Rome and such? e; I'm gunna clarify; basically with 0 knowledge of Ancient Rome but not for kids Empress Brosephine fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jun 13, 2016 |
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Jun 13, 2016 21:12
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My standard recommendation for that is Rubicon by Tom Holland. He's a great writer and it's about the end of the Republic, which is the best documented of one of the most dramatic periods of Roman history. A second possibility is SPQR by Mary Beard. I actually have not read it yet but I have seen a bunch of her Roman documentaries and they're really good, and she tends to approach the subject from a common person perspective instead of the elite. So, I'm going to bet the book is worth reading.
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Jun 14, 2016 02:16
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Also recommending The History Of Rome podcast, if you have three months of commutes (or gym workouts) you're looking to add something to.
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Cool thanks guys ill check em all out
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Jun 14, 2016 03:28
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You could also check out Dan Carlin's Death Throes of the Republic for another take on that. Or watch HBO's Rome. HBO's Rome is great. In fact, watch it no matter what.
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A human heart posted:ah hell, i can't learn about a subject because there isn't a person on itunes reading the book out loud to me. i also need someone to change my soiled diaper Yeah, they have made me super lazy but realistically if I'm in a darkened out area I can listen to it with head phones on without disturbing anyone else, also I've just found them more useful in general, being able to enjoy a book while reading or painting is great.
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Uroboros posted:being able to enjoy a book while reading ... is great. It must be, yes.
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Megazver posted:You could also check out Dan Carlin's Death Throes of the Republic for another take on that. will do that also thanks man
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Abu Dave posted:will do that also thanks man I can give a solid recco to the aforementioned SQPR by Mary Beard. It's a modern history that does not assume much in the way of prior knowledge, and does a great job of looping in larger themes around specific individuals. It was a fun read. It covers Roman history from the mists of time up to the peak of Empire (the granting of citizenship to all citizens in the 2nd Century AD), so you'll need something else for The "Fall" of Rome (I can recommend Peter Heather's "The Fall of the Roman Empire" for that topic).
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Jun 15, 2016 18:40
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Would anyone be able to recommend any titles covering medieval Spain, or anything touching on the Reconquista?
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Does anyone have any good books on Romania during and I suppose to immediately after the Ceaușescu regime? Looks like someone asked a year ago int his thread but no one responded.
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Does anybody have any suggestions on books about the Nuremberg Trials, or the Khmer Rouge?
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Captain_Person posted:Does anybody have any suggestions on books about the Nuremberg Trials, or the Khmer Rouge? "When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution" by Elizabeth Becker is one on the latter I read last summer and it's gut-wrenchingly thorough :S
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Are there any histories in English of the Khmer empire? The only Cambodia books I can find are Khmer Rouge stuff and I want to know about the people who built Angkor.
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smr posted:"When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution" by Elizabeth Becker is one on the latter I read last summer and it's gut-wrenchingly thorough :S Thanks, this looks to be exactly what I was looking for.
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Grand Fromage posted:Are there any histories in English of the Khmer empire? The only Cambodia books I can find are Khmer Rouge stuff and I want to know about the people who built Angkor. I read a history of south east Asia whose name I will look up for you. Its the best I've found on the region
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Grand Fromage posted:Are there any histories in English of the Khmer empire? The only Cambodia books I can find are Khmer Rouge stuff and I want to know about the people who built Angkor. Here's the name of the book for you A History of Southeast Asia by Arthur Cotterell
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Does anybody have suggestions for what I guess would be called "commodity history" books? What I've read previously: "The Arcanum", about how porcelain was reverse-engineered in Europe and the Meissen porcelain works. "Liquid Jade", a general history about tea. "For all the tea in China", a biography about Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist sent to China to steal the secret of how to make tea. "Tulipomania", "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition", about the Volstead act and why it got passed and so on.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Does anybody have suggestions for what I guess would be called "commodity history" books? What I've read previously: The History and Social Influence of the Potato.
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Jun 25, 2016 06:37
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"Cod" by Mark Kurlansky does what it says on the tin.
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Jun 25, 2016 06:40
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Also "The Pencil" and "The Evolution of Useful Things" by Henry Petroski.
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withak posted:"Cod" by Mark Kurlansky does what it says on the tin. I read this and I think "Salt" also by him. They're OK but I think I'm done with history-of-one-thing books for a while, there are heaps of them out there at the moment.
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withak posted:Also "The Pencil" and "The Evolution of Useful Things" by Henry Petroski. I had Petroski for a couple classes ~10 years ago. Bastard assigned half a dozen books, all things that he'd written.
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Jun 25, 2016 07:18
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Also Yergin, "The Prize" - history of oil.
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FMguru posted:Also Yergin, "The Prize" - history of oil. This is what I came here to recommend. Fantastic book.
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Jun 25, 2016 16:29
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"Empire of Cotton" is good too.
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin for all the essential whale oil related products.that got phased out by petroleum.
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Thanks for the recc of SPQR for roman history, very well done and doesn't put much into the myths which is welcome.
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Abu Dave posted:Thanks for the recc of SPQR for roman history, very well done and doesn't put much into the myths which is welcome. Yeah I've started reading it as well based on this thread, it's a good read so far. I like Mary Beard's style.
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Reading "The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer" right now. Pretty good. A+ beach reading. Will make you double up on sun screen.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Reading "The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer" right now. The author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, has just released a new book called The Gene: An Intimate History which looks to be an interesting follow-up to this.
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Can anybody recommend a book about Biblical life from a secular perspective that isn't...uh, aggressively secular? I want to learn about what the disciples ate for lunch without every paragraph ending in either, "and this is why Christianity is a LIE" or "and this is why Christ is LORD".
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